It seems that any time anything interesting in the night sky happens in our part of the world, bad weather ruins it (or light pollution- the disadvantage of living in a city ;p). But not so tonight! It was more or less clear for the whole eclipse, so we got a glimpse of the moon turning a deep crimson. All very impressive.

(Why do I not have an icon for my geek love of astronomy? Must fix this at some point.)

Ah, man, those are lovely! I went to bed around 12:30 last night and I remember thinking to myself "Wow, it's a really beautiful night outside, no clouds and a full moon...huh, this moonlight's really bright. That's interesting."

But I totally didn't know a lunar eclipse was going to happen! I would've gotten up early if I had.